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Laboratory Testing Can Identify Risk of Pre-Term Labor and Delivery

...dentify at-risk women is fetal fibronectin (fFN).A glycoprotein that is secreted by the fetal membrane and found in the choriodecidual junction, fFN is responsible for cellular adhesions. The level of fFN in the woman's cervicovaginal secretions is highly associated with pre-term labor and pre-term delivery. The ...

Angioplasty plus stenting better than thrombolysis for elderly patients with AMI

...e performed before intracoronary stents and use of glycoprotein IIb/IIIa antagonists were routinely employed. Therefore, Dr. Hanoch Hod, of Chaim Sheba Medical //Center in Tel Hashomer, Israel, and associates followed 130 consecutive patients aged 70 or older treated for ST-elevation AMI. Eighty-six patients wer...

Osteopontin: a useful biomarker in asbestos-related cancer

...ally treated pleural mesothelioma.Osteopontin is a glycoprotein that is over expressed in lung, breast, colorectal, gastric, and ovarian cancer and in melanoma. High levels of osteopontin have previously been shown to correlate with tumor invasion, progression, and metastases. The researchers investigated the p...

Loss Of Dystrophin: Common Thread In Cancer And MS Muscle Wasting

...f muscle cells. These proteins form the dystrophin glycoprotein complex. Dystrophin and DGC are also lost in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The loss of dystrophin and damage to the DGC appear to be key players in the development of both cancer wasting and muscular dystrophy. Cancer wasting occurs most often in e...

Malfunction Of Key Growth Factor Increases Mortality Rate From Pulmonary Fibrosis In Blacks

...pproach they found that the amount of antifibrotic glycoprotein hypatocyte growth factor (HGF) was reduced in the blood and epithelial lining fluid of African-American scleroderma patients than in Caucasians.And the latest study presented in San Francisco "demonstrates that antifibrotic effects of HGF are impaire...

U.S., Australian Scientists Develop Vaccine Against Deadly Viruses

...f a component of the virus particle known as the G glycoprotein and its use has demonstrated complete protection from infection by Nipah virus in a feline model. Because these viruses are so similar, immunization with the component from either Hendra or Nipah protected against challenge from both, indicating that...

Good News for Sufferers of Heart Attack, Chest Pain

...terol-lowering statins, clot-reducing drugs called glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors, blood thinners such as clopidogrel and heparin, and blood pressure-reducing drugs including ACE inhibitors. At the same time, the use of angiography to see blocked arteries in the heart and angioplasty as an emergency or secon...

Good News for Sufferers of Heart Attack, Chest Pain

...terol-lowering statins, clot-reducing drugs called glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors, blood thinners such as clopidogrel and heparin, and blood pressure-reducing drugs including ACE inhibitors. At the same time, the use of angiography to see blocked arteries in the heart and angioplasty as an emergency or secon...

Scientists Identify Antibodies That Block Human and Animal SARS Viruses

...ies that bind to a region on the SARS virus' spike glycoprotein that is called the receptor binding domain (RBD). One of the antibodies, called S230.15, was found in the blood of a patient who had been infected with SARS and later recovered, while the second antibody, m396, was taken from a library of human antib...